Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more

Building a Library focuses on Shostakovich's Symphony 11 with Gerard McBurney. Laura Tunbridge speaks on Lieder releases from Christian Gerhaher, Bo Skovhus and Florian Boesch. Show more

Breaking Free - A Century of Russian Culture: Tom Service meets controversial Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis. Show more

Operatic bass Robert Lloyd charts the cultural, social and technological changes of the opera stage over the past 50 years. Show more

Matthew Sweet reflects on the impact of the Russian Revolution and music on Soviet film, with scores for Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, War and Peace and The New Babylon. Show more

Among the week's pick of requests for all styles of jazz music, Alyn Shipton includes music by the unusual partnership of trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Paul Desmond. Show more

Julian Joseph's programme includes a performance by BBC Radio 3's New Generation Jazz Artist, the bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado, in concert at the 2016 London Jazz Festival. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Shostakovich's groundbreaking opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, with Nina Stemme in the principal role, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. Show more

Keep your cool when it's 120 degrees and local kids have fired rockets at your wooden shanty boat? Join Wes Modes on a Huckleberry Finn-style adventure in the backwoods of America. Show more

Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works by Toshio Hosokawa, Toru Takemitsu and Claude Vivier. Show more

As the EFG London Jazz Festival kicks off, Geoffrey Smith highlights favourites from among such starry attractions as Herbie Hancock, Abdullah Ibrahim, Pat Metheny and John Surman. Show more

Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Archive performances by the Moscow Philharmonic and Kiril Kondrashin. With John Shea. Show more